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A comment on Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by MikusR on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:25PM (#20479985)
Did you check 50 years in the future? What are you talking about? When did you have to pay to change wallpaper?
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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by transpostmeta on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:50PM (#20480298)
If you have an unregistered version of Windows, they impose some restrictions. One of them is that you can't change your wallpaper.
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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by mhermher on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:46PM (#20481848)
'Unregistered' as in pirated? I think they embed a warning message into the background for pirated Windows and that is probably why you can't change it.

Microsoft is saying 'Hey, we know you pirated this copy. Instead of locking it down, we're just going to put this un-dismissable nag message here.'

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